The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.
Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.
Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
When you're the cash cow that lays the golden goose egg, people are always going to cheer you on, whatever.
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.
To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.